Arromanches-les-Bains

We certainly have it in our France guidebook.

And everybody's gonna go to Arromanches, and everybody's gonna go to the American Cemetery.

Not everybody's gonna go to the German, uh, military cemetery, but, at, uh-

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In 1941, the tapestry was moved from Bayeux to a chateau further south and kept in a basement.

We're in Arromanches by Normandy's D-Day Landing Beaches.

A youth band from Sheffield plays on the seafront.

UK and French flags are flying in the summer breeze.

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... that gets sent to this rest camp, which is right next to Arromanches.

Amazing.

Yeah, and he s- he says, "I just wish I was walking on this summer's day with you," is what he writes to Marion.

That mouth extended over twenty kilometers, said he.

He pointed out Ville-Vie, Trouville, Houlegate, Luc, Arromanche, the little river of Caen, and the rocks of Calvados, which made the coast unsafe as far as Cherbourg.

Then he enlarged on the question of the sandbanks in the Seine, which shift at every tide, so that even the pilots of Kielbef are at fault if they do not survey the channel every day.

He bid them notice how the town of Havre divided upper from lower Normandy.